Apple has just issued an update to Podcasts, its official podcast app for iOS.
While the update is largely a maintenance one, it does introduce a new feature in the form of pull-to-refresh. Yup, at long last, Podcasts now supports the pull-to-refresh mechanism.
Gone is the refresh button for refreshing subscriptions in the app's My Podcasts section. In its stead is a pull-to-refresh gesture and animation tandem similar to that of Apple's Mail app. As shown in the screenshot above, the app also shows when your subscriptions were last updated as you pull to refresh.
The new version of Podcasts also includes the following tweaks:

Resolved an issue that may cause playback to stop unexpectedly

Fixed a problem where subscriptions may stop updating with new episodes